Prefrontal cortical efferents in the rat synapse on unlabeled neuronal targets of catecholamine terminals in the nucleus accumbens septi and on dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area

Physiological and pharmacological studies indicate that descending projections from the prefrontal cortex modulate dopaminergic transmission in the nucleus accumbens septi and ventral tegmental area. We investigated the ultrastructural bases for these interactions in rat by examining the synaptic associations between prefrontal cortical terminals labeled with anterograde markers (lesion‐induced degeneration or transport of Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin; PHA‐L) and neuronal processes containing immunoreactivity for the catecholamine synthesizing enzyme, tryosine hydroxylase.

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